Romania: Chinese investor to be elected for partner on reversible HPP Tarnita

19. March 2015. / SEE Energy News

By the end of the year, Romania could choose Chinese investor who will develop the project of reversible hydropower plant Tarnita – Lapusesti, worth one billion Euros, said Ovidiu Demetrescu, General Manager of Hydro Project Tarnita.

Demetrescu added that the list of potential investors should be released in the next two weeks.

“We will start negotiations with selected investors and several international financial institutions,” said Demetrescu, but did not specify which institutions are concerned.

Romania is trying to realize the project Tarnita since 1980. Currently, they are working on building new capacities from renewable energy sources that will be completed prior to the closing of coal mines, which is planned for 2018.